Baby Audio Tekno

Craft deep electronic drums

• Build deeper and harder synthesized drums from scratch – without samples
• Includes 18 custom drum engines, powered by cutting-edge analog modeling
• Use Tekno's humanize features to make every drum hit unique

Supercharge your drums

Tekno is a modern take on the legendary drum machines that defined electronic music – hitting harder and deeper thanks to 21st century upgrades. It gives you the power to design infectious synthesized drums from the ground up.

Produce drums without samples

Skip the samples and craft your own signature drum sounds instead. Tekno offers 18 unique drum synth engines, spanning kicks, snares, clap, hats, percussion and more. With deep editing access, you can create any electronic drum character for any genre.

Sequence Tekno via MIDI or drag and drop its sounds directly into a DAW, external sequencer, or any folder.

Next-generation circuit modeling

To build Tekno, we teamed up with Jatin Chowdhury, one of the leading engineers in analog circuit modeling. Our goal: to create a modern spiritual successor to the legendary drum machines of the 20th century. Not an emulation, but something more tweakable and harder-hitting.

Tekno combines analog modeling with cutting-edge DSP to deliver the punchiest synthesized drums ever put in a plugin.

Deep tweaking or fast inspiration

Click the ‘Gear’ icons next to any synth voice or FX section to unlock deep calibration and circuit-bending options and take total control of your tone.

Or hit the onboard ‘Dice’ icons to let Tekno’s smart random-algorithm generate new and usable drums with every click.

You can also start from 72 global presets and 1296 individual voice presets by leading sound designers such as Mr. Bill, Virtual Riot and Yoad Nevo.

Each hit is unique

Tekno is a synthesizer, it generates every drum hit from scratch through a complex, non-linear VA circuit. That means it never hits exactly the same way twice – a quality it shares with the classic analog drum machines (and a big part of their magic). Compare this to samples, which are static snapshots and you’ll find that Tekno’s subtleties make your tracks come more alive.

Tekno allows you to exaggerate this behavior further: Use the on-board humanize parameters to introduce extra variation in timbre, velocity and timing for more interesting drum patterns .

Loaded with analog-modeled effects

Tekno’s onboard effects have been crafted with the same deep circuit-modeling efforts as the drum voices.

There are no ‘copy-paste FX’ in Tekno, but a unique suite of coloration tools created especially for this instrument.

Enhance individual drums with analog-modeled tape saturation, excitation and compression. And make the whole kit shine with a punchy limiter/clipper combo that will cut through any mix.